| 单词 | night comer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnight comer b. With preceding modifying word (usually an adjective), as night comer, last comer, next comer, recent comer.chance-comer, first-comer: see the first element. See also after-comer n., incomer n., latecomer n. ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. l. 140 Buryden his body & beden þat men sholde Kepen it fro niȝt-comeres. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. iv. f. xxxiiii Farre cummers, out of other straunge countreyes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Dernier The last commers get the maisterie. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. ix. 82 Offering themselves to the next commer. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. vi. 82 Half-rearing the lids, to see who the next-comer was; and falling them again. 1811 S. T. Coleridge Let. 30 Nov. in Southey's Life of Bell (1844) II. 645 The entrance..is disagreeable even to foot-comers, and far more so to carriages. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. x. 256 Aunt Rhoda..strongly objected to be among those early comers who roam about empty halls dejectedly. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 9 486 Internment of ships is a recent comer in international law. 2007 N.Y. Times 22 June e26/3 Parking is scarce—early-comers may use New York Aquarium and Keyspan Park parking lots. < as lemmas |
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